Brashlyan (Bulgarian: Бръшлян, "ivy") is a village in Malko Tarnovo Municipality, in Burgas Province, in southeastern Bulgaria.

A band of the Internal Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Revolutionary Organization was surrounded by Ottoman troops in the Balyuva House on 2 April; the band leader (voivode) Pano Angelov and the member Nikola Ravashola were killed by the Ottomans.

According to Lyubomir Miletich's demographic survey of the Ottoman province of Edirne in The Destruction of Thracian Bulgarians in 1913, published in 1918, before the wars Sarmashik (Сармашикъ) was a village in the district of Malko Tarnovo inhabited by 150 Bulgarian Exarchist families.

The village's fair is organized annually in early August, usually around the 8th, and lasts two days.

Brashlyan is mentioned in the "Strandzha Marseillaise",[4][5] the song The Clear Moon is Already Rising, written by the leader of the Lozengrad revolutionary district Yani Popov: [The heroes] are hurrying, hurrying to arrivebefore cockcrow in Sarmashik.So that nobody anticipatesand meanly betrays them....O Sarmashik, glorious villagefrom the heroic struggle,O Sarmashik, new flagof Thracian freedom.